"In
397, or twelve years after his conversion, Augustine wrote his Confessions, the
greatest spiritual autobiography ever written. It is the work of a teacher who
explains, a philosopher who thinks, and a theologian who instructs. It is the
work of a poet who achieves chaste beauty in the writing, and a mystic who pours
out thanks for having found himself in peace. " - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen in St
Augustine of Hippo